Great.
The irony of it has been that we have a community with the name of Falher in my constituency, and just recently they were one of the top contenders for the Hockeyville CBC program. The irony, of course, is that it's a French-speaking community that was being highlighted on English television. We're very proud of Falher and the success they had in that competition. The irony, I'm sure, you understand.
We need to discuss the mandate with regard to CBC. We need to figure out where we're going to go from here and if there are any suggestions we're going to make. As you suggested, CBC and Radio-Canada are quite jealously protective of their programming. They are very protective.
Just this morning I had a conversation with one of the CBC employees who did reiterate some of your concerns about CBC's not being told how to execute their programming. I'm just wondering how we square the circle to ensure we don't get involved, that we, as parliamentarians, and you, as an officer of Parliament, don't go into the area of dictating to CBC, but on the other hand still ensure that CBC is going to have a mandate. I'm just wondering how we can put this into a context to ensure that CBC is given direction, and that it does not, as this employee stated, become a state broadcaster.